Michael Leiter, the top official in charge of analyzing terror threats with the NCTC did not cut short his ski vacation after the underwear bomber nearly blew up an Northwest Airlines Flight 253 on Christmas Day, according to a report in the New York Daily News.

Michael Leiter, director of the National Counterterrorism Center since 2007, decided not to return to his agency’s “bat cave” nerve center in McLean, Va. until several days after the Christmas Day bombing attempt.